Residue on the carpet and in the case of one young boy possibly being smuggled Into storage, possibly with some extra fluff, possibly leaving ectoplasmic Sealed tubs which would allow you to slime your figures and get most of it back Jelly-like, bright and colourful, distinctive-smelling ooze was provided in The spring of 1987, introduced, to the delight of children and exasperation of #81020 but it was given the correct item number on the third pressing. Slimer, was incorrectly printed in the first and second waves with item number This was followed by a third wave for the Christmas Wave 2, was released sometime in the spring of 1987 with three additionalįigures that weren’t featured on the cards: GhostZapper, Plush Ghost Stay Puft Second wave, which was released with additions from Bad-to-the-Bone was a skeleton with a ribcage that could trap a buster and eyes that protruded from his screaming skull, H2 Ghost was a doubly troublesome watery phantom who split apart to reveal a pair of ghosts to trap. Once The Green Ghost (later named Slimer) and Mr Stay Puft had been released with the first wave a smorgasbord of original creations followed them, beginning in the summer of ’87, nearly all of them exclusive to the toy line rather than replicating ghosts from the animated show.Įach of them had some kind of wacky action feature: Bug-Eye, as you might expect had a large eye that popped out of his soft, rubbery, Boglin-style body, attached to a piece of string. Their eyes were also painted different colours and Egon was given yellow hair and Ray lighter chestnut, to differentiate from the otherwise unanimous dark brown and black hair.īut few successful action toy lines don’t have baddies, for the goodies to fight, and in this case Kenner had carte blanche to go wild on their ghostly creations. Likewise their neutrino wands were flexible plastic in four different colours to represent the many hues of the light streams we saw onscreen, in yellow, orange, peach and green. In development meetings when making the animated Ghostbusters show, rather than just giving the busters matching beige or grey uniforms they had individual colours, brown, beige, turquoise and a dark grey-green. The proton packs were simple, molded blue and chunky and each was connected to their neutrino wand with a piece of yellow string. Each came with a companion ghost made in translucent, rubbery plastic ready to be busted. These were some of the biggest selling and most fondly remembered of the whole line. The initial wave of Ghostbusters figures featured the four busters in their classic overalls. Now there were rarely any movie-related use of the actor’s licenses in these toys so pretty much everything stemmed from either the cartoon or what the folks at Kenner could make up. Wave 1, which was released in the winter of 1986 and hit general shelves in early ’87 included the original four Ghostbusters in their animated style. Kenner, who had handled Star Wars created a line of action figures released for Christmas 1986, a few months after the first season of The Real Ghostbusters began airing.įans and collectors of the Kenner action figures will find many familiar hallmarks in their Ghostbusters line, including soft detail, five points of articulation legs, arms and neck, fun accessories, repurposed sculpting, and some increasingly more garish and outlandish ideas nearer the end. Popularity and just before its cancellation so had a very limited release. The Ecto-Glow Heroes which were released in 1991 at the tail end of the lines Probably the most difficult of the figures to acquire are Was the Classic Monsters, released in 1989 that didn’t really have anyĬonnection to the movie or the rest of the toy line. The only batch that has been largely neglected by collectors MOC figures becoming extremely difficult to find and likely to be more so when The line proved to be popular then and remains so now with These figures were first released in 1987 and ran through toġ991 and were based on the first two Ghostbusters movies and the TV Animated series. Real Ghostnusters” in order tto settle the court case and as a fingers up to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TMNT Checklistĭuring the movies development Filmation filed a suit againstĬolumbia Pictures for copyright infringement so the name was retitled to “The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TMNT Price Guide
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